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The unspoken legacy of Much Music

2009 marks the 25th anniversary of Much Music, Canada's answer to MTV and oddly nobody seems to have noticed, including Much itself which has chosen to downplay this event for some unknown reason.

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the birdie Say Local Radio is doing 'just fine'

Glancing around the Internet, I run across an article in MediaBase/AllAccess: "WSJ: Radio Asks Lenders for Help" Then, right below that article, I see this article: "Nielsen: Ad Spending Down 15.4% So Far In '09"

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Tributes to some recently passed musical figures

Les Paul was not only one of the first electric guitar heroes, he also made all subsequent guitar heroes possible.

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Found; The lost grave of Blind Willie Johnson

Jazz, Blues, Ragtime and Country are full of Holy Grail artifacts which believers have spent years and in some cases decades in search of in the apparent hopes that finding them will open the discoverer to some sort of link to a mystical and misty musical past.

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Do music and politics mix?

Nero didn't actually fiddle while Rome burned if only because the fiddle hadn't actually been invented yet, but he no doubt did play the lyre and pan pipes rather well.

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What's the worst song to ever get stuck in your head?

I made the mistake a couple of weeks ago while channel surfing to stumble across VH-1 Classic (or whatever it's called). Abba was on shaking and shimmying in their flirty, mincing, mildly-but-safely sexual way.

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Good News Wednesday - My Music Choices for June

Well, a couple people asked me when I'd post up my Music Choices-I haven't done it since April. You may notice some repeats, here goes: 1. Freak Show - The Ending

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Now Taking New (or at least "new" to me) Music Recommendations...

Hmm just realized one thing I lost in the burglary was a list I had on my computer of artists I wanted to download and try sometime. It had more than 100 artists on it. So... here's your chance to get me to try something new and different.

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